577 Shi Xiaobai Has Disappeared (2/2)
Mojin commanded his secretary.
The secretary wore a nasty look. There were only ten S Class Heroes in all of China. Each of them shouldered the heavy responsibility of saving cities or even the country. They also dealt with the most dangerous disasters and would only appear to deal with meteor showers that could destroy cities or King Class calamity fiends which the military had trouble dealing with. How could they rush to save a tiny disaster caused by an elite calamity fiend because of a single phone call from Mojin?
At that moment, a sword beam appeared like a sudden bolt of lightning, sweeping across the calamity fiend's waist!
The sword beam was fine like a silver thread, but extremely sharp. At a speed which left no time for one to cover one's ears, it sliced anything that was in its path into two. Buildings, stone columns, billboards, and even the elite calamity fiend was sliced into two by that sudden sword beam.
Boom!
The calamity fiend's massive body was sliced apart at its waist as it began to fall to the ground. Another sword beam swept over and loped off its ugly head from its neck, sending purplish-black blood spewing out like a fountain.
In just the time it took to take a breath, the elite calamity fiend which had instantly killed Mike was sliced to death by two sword beams!
”Who is it!?”
The citizens who saw this scene were dumbfounded.
A man with a red cape and yellow tight suit slowly walked out of the flames. His trademark bald head and harmless looks made everyone exclaim involuntarily.
”Ah! It's Superman One-Pun!”
”Is this a joke!? How can an S Class Hero appear here!?”
As though they had seen an idol, the citizens cheered.
One-Pun, who came from the Gaia organization, was nicknamed ”Superman One-Pun” because his cape and tight-fitting clothes resembled Superman. He was unfathomably strong, and his sword arts entitled him to the glorious title of world-class Sword Master. However, rumor had it that One-Pun's punch was even more freakish than his sword arts, but it was unverifiable.
Regardless, being able to see an S Class Hero with their own eyes naturally left the citizens overjoyed. After all, China only had ten S Class Heroes. And One-Pun was probably the only one who was willing to appear for such a tiny disaster.
”Hmph! You were too slow! Do you know how much money I lost? Your Hero Association must answer to me today!”
Mojin wore an ugly expression. More than half of the commercial street had been destroyed by the calamity fiend, causing him to lose massive amounts of property and assets. From his point of view, it was all the Hero Association's fault. If an S Class Hero had appeared the moment the calamity fiend appeared, how much losses would he have saved?
These losses had to be blamed on the Hero who came late!
One-Pun ignored Mojin's grumbling and turned to look at the black spatial rift before frowning slightly.
”The rifts are expanding in size.”
One-Pun sighed lightly. This spatial rift was far bigger than those in the past. This meant that the spatial barrier between the human world and the calamity fiends was no longer as resilient and indestructible. The moment the calamity fiend army could crack open the spatial barrier was approaching.
One-Pun fell silent for a moment and ignored the complaints of Mojin. Nor did he respond to the cheers of the citizens. After using his Psionic Power to mend the rift, he turned and headed for the next disaster spot.
Today's disasters seemed to be more frequent than before. This made One-Pun feel an ominous sense of foreboding.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
The communication device sounded suddenly, shocking One-Pun a little. His communication device had not sounded in a very long time, and during the few times it sounded, they mostly involved the Hero Association sending out S Class disaster level notices.
One-Pun hurriedly put through the communication.
”Hello? Teacher One-Pun?”
It was Riko's extremely fresh voice.
One-Pun was slightly taken aback. Apart from the Hero Association and Gaia, the only person who knew his communication device's number was his disciple, Riko Minamiya. However, this was apparently the first time Riko was calling him on the device. From the looks of it, something important must have happened.
”What happened?” asked One-Pun.
Riko's somewhat embarrassed laughter sounded. ”Ah, it's this. There's something I need to trouble you with.”
One-Pun asked, ”What's it?”
”The Hero Association suddenly informed the organization and academic factions that the competition has been brought forward. They request that all rookies that have passed the preliminaries are to gather at the Association's headquarters tomorrow morning.”
Riko paused when she came to that point.
One-Pun asked, ”Is there a problem?”
Riko coughed slightly and said, ”It's not a problem that the competition was brought forward. Most importantly… We have no idea where Shi Xiaobai has run off to! We can't find him anywhere! Teacher One-Pun, didn't you choose Shi Xiaobai to be a God's Guardian target? So you should be able to sense where he is, right? All we need to do is find him before tomorrow morning!”
One-Pun's Superpower, God's Guardian, could bind three targets. When his targets were in danger, he would sense it in a timely fashion, allowing him to teleport to his target's side. It was truly a godlike absolute defense.
Yama Minamiya, Riko, and Shi Xiaobai were the three targets he had bound.
”Okay, I'll help you figure out where Shi Xiaobai is.”
One-Pun did not reject Riko's request for this was indeed something trivial for him.
One-Pun closed his eyes and used his perception to sense the location of his targets of protection. Quickly, Yama Minamiya and Riko appeared in his perception, but Shi Xiaobai's existence could not be found even after a long time.
Three minutes later, One-Pun opened his eyes in a daze.
”Shi Xiaobai… has disappeared?”